Abstract
Seafaring profession has traditionally been considered a romantic profession among young people, but in today's labor market has dramatically changed priorities of career choices. At present, the maritime industry has more than 40 thousand vacancies, in addition to the growing trend. If the recent level of sailors (rating) applies for a job from Asia and other developing countries, than the shipping officers with University level are particularly difficult to recruit for crew shipping companies. Standard defines the profession demanding skippers and navigators. Latvia is in good situation in comparison with other EU countries - Latvia is the 5th place in Europe (13 thousand seamen), two Maritime Colleges and the Latvian Maritime Academy (LMA) with over 500 students. The European Commision sponsored project Youth4JOB is submitted under domain 2 of the Progress VP/2011/010 call, aimed at contributing to the implementation of the flagship initiative Youth on the Move, in particular on the measures to promote the first transition for young people from education to the labour market. LMA is one of 10 partners on this project. At LMA, as an interesting distinctive action, we may mention the orientation efforts of the Academy with high school students to attract them in a sector with low unemployment rates and the job guidance and identification of opportunities during their training period. Latvian Maritime Academy presents the Case Study on “Job opportunities and vocational orientation and guidance in the Maritime sector” - in this case, LMA has highlighted the interesting data that they have to make efforts to attract young people to such studies, for a sector where there is almost no unemployment for professionals. The objective of the study was to use a variety of data collection and analysis methods: an analysis of policy documents, statistical data analysis, a secondary analysis of previous research, database analysis, telephone interviews, focus group discussions and expert discussions. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.7.4381
Highlights
Quality of studies is a multidimensional and complex phenomenon (Heywood, 2000; Bartuseviciene, Rupsiene, 2010)
In 2008 International Maritime Organization (IMO) launched campaign “Go to Sea” (Mason, 2008) with aim to attract new entrants to the shipping industry The latest Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) and the International Shipping Federation (ISF) report suggests that the surrent shortage of officers corresponds to 12 per cent of the total workforce (46,000 officers) by the year 2010 (IER, 2000)
The majority of respondents believe in obtaining the best job opportunities after completion of their studies as a result of an employment relationship occuring at the company they have before served as trainees
Summary
Quality of studies is a multidimensional and complex phenomenon (Heywood, 2000; Bartuseviciene, Rupsiene, 2010). Motives of choosing maritime profession and approaches to learnin are characteristicsof an individual person. According to Lithuanian researchers G.Kalvaitiene, I.Bartusevičiene and V.Sencilaa (2011) there are the following motivation factors of profession choosing: social, economical, psychological and health. R.Hoppock (1950) explains choosing profession via the satisfaction of need. The European Commission is seeking to identify and eventually counter bottlenecks and barriers to sustainable growth and to devise the most appropriate policy responses. This initiative will provide a comprehensive picture of the economic size and employment of all the main marine and maritime sectors in Europe, including emerging sectors with potential high added value and growth.perspectives. There is undoubtedly an urgent need to recruit and retain more seafarers and the immediate prognosis is not good, since recruitment and training are already inadequate to meet existing demand (MCA, 2000)
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